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"Six months ago I called attention to the fact that the changes needed in the European Union should start with the elimination of the long-standing unfair discrimination still evident against new Member States. We had to be disappointed. Now, at the end of the year, not only did we fail to make any progress on the road taking Europe out of the crisis, but we actually started off in the wrong direction, in the opposite direction. Mr Schulz, the iceberg is not ahead of us, but behind us. We have already managed to successfully avoid it once. The problem is that we are moving in reverse. It is obvious that the outcome will still be certain shipwreck. It has to be said that the budget proposal is not suited to serve as the foundation of the huge historical undertaking of European reunification. It does not reduce the crisis of Europe, but increases it; it does not unite European Union Member States, but divides them. It does not help new Member States, but humiliates them. It does not make Europe more competitive, but pulls it back. This budget proposal is a budget that slows us down and divides us. A few years ago the new Member States of the European Union accepted the transitional disadvantages and differentiations in Copenhagen in the hope that they would be able to participate in the seven-year financial plan with full rights, without differentiation. However, what we can now see is that the old Member States intend to solve their long-standing unsolved problems to the detriment of the new Member States. This is unacceptable, humiliating and inadmissible. This is not worthy of Europe. The governments need to change their approach. They should follow the European Parliament! In spite of our differing interests, we already agreed on the budget in spring, and this House has more than 700 Members, while there are only 25 governments."@en1

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